FA Cup Final - 18/05 1700hrs

Tim of the Oak said:
My sense is thetbdemand for the FA Cup Final is similar to the League Cup Final. We have similar numbers wanting to go from our Supportees Club FWIW.

For the LC Final we sold our 33,500 allocation and probably had 40k Blues in the ground, with several thousand in the neutral / FA blocks and Club Wembley.
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I'd say demand is higher. All my mates are going. Several didn't go to the League Cup Final. Plenty of "casual" City fans will fancy this one too and end up in Club Wembley or taking the FA tickets.

I bet there's close to 50K City in the ground and plenty who can't get tickets.
 
M18CTID said:
Yeah, they did it for the semi-final as well and it looked like it worked well. What I find interesting is that when 1894 wanted to do one further towards the back of the lower tier at Wembley for a previous game we had the kibosh put on it due to H&S or something about blocking the view of disabled fans. I assumed it was a Wembley decision at the time and we were told we had to do it at the front which we've now done on several occasions but while that's good visually for flags, etc, it makes it harder to generate an atmosphere. In any case, we probably wouldn't get a great deal of interest for a singing block further back for the FA Cup Final as the tickets beyond the front 10 rows or so are priced at £115 each!
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Slight aside, but I alsways thought that it was a big boo-boo by 1894 not to claim seats at the back of the top tier of the new South Stand. Sound bounces off the roof and carries miles better than at the front in our ground, just like at Wembley. It won't matter at Wembley because the atmosphere will look after itself.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Slight aside, but I alsways thought that it was a big boo-boo by 1894 not to claim seats at the back of the top tier of the new South Stand. Sound bounces off the roof and carries miles better than at the front in our ground, just like at Wembley. It won't matter at Wembley because the atmosphere will look after itself.
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Catch 22 with that. No doubt SS3 is the easiest place in the ground to generate an atmosphere, but we would lose the visual aspect by going up there plus there was a whole block of seats being vacated in 114/115 which was part of the old away section so it was a lot easier to locate the section there, whereas the new SS3 that was opening at the same time had a huge waiting list of fans who had signed up months or years in advance, and it wouldn't have been possible or fair for us to get a block of seats reserved for 1894.
 
M18CTID said:
Catch 22 with that. No doubt SS3 is the easiest place in the ground to generate an atmosphere, but we would lose the visual aspect by going up there plus there was a whole block of seats being vacated in 114/115 which was part of the old away section so it was a lot easier to locate the section there, whereas the new SS3 that was opening at the same time had a huge waiting list of fans who had signed up months or years in advance, and it wouldn't have been possible or fair for us to get a block of seats reserved for 1894.
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Personally I don't really care about the "visual" side to be honest. I'm not blaming 1894 who do a great job, but the club should have designated that whole tier as a "singing" end and put 1894 there first. then people in the existing signing ends should have been offered cheap relocation second. Only then should tickets have been made available.

Too late now, of course, and derailing the thread.
 
People slagging off the East side... when was the last time we were beaten on that side ??
 
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